this is "world news." tonight, the christmas storm watch on this busiest travel weekend of the year, millions on people on the move. but the real question is, how will everybody get back home with two, new christmas storms developing right now? procrastination nation. t-minus three days until christmas. this is possibly the biggest shopping day of the year. why experts say 3:00 in the morning may be the best time to hit the mall. the spy versus hollywood. why one of the best reviewed movies of the year is under fire tonight by the new head of the cia. and wheel of misfortune. how saying the right word the wrong way cost this woman thousands of dollars.

and good evening on this saturday night. we're going to start with a huge number, 93 million, that's how many million americans are on the move this holiday weekend. nearly a third of the u.s. population getting on planes or behind the wheel. dealing with weather problems like this truck blown right off the road and this gas station, where the roof over the pumps was knocked down. but the big worry tonight is what happens after christmas? when everyone tries to get back home. there are two new, big storms bearing down. ginger zee is all over the story. >> reporter: relentless winds. gusting up to 60 miles per hour around the nation's capital today, put holiday travel on hold at dulles airport. >> and they actually had to have planes change runways, moving runway landings around because

of concerns about crosswinds. a lot of passengers tell us they were dealing with some turbulence coming in. >> reporter: for the millions hitting the road, it was far from perfect. rochester, new york, whiteouts made travel nearly impossible. and for those who thought trains were the safe bet, a major commuter train outside of seattle is still shut down, thanks to almost a dozen landslides. and this is still all part of that disastrous winter storm that tore across the nation this week killing at least seven people. that brute of a storm is gone by tomorrow. but don't set down your weather remote. up from 3 feet of snow from a new storm. all of that snow, then a night of heavy rain, and a roof collapsed into this store. the snow so heavy it sent a tree through this trailer, killing a man. and that beast is now coming east. >> the beast is coming east. in fact, we've got two beasts coming east.

tell us what we're in store for. >> that's right. places like washington, d.c., which only has snow 1 in 12 chance on christmas day. i have to show this storm. the last time they had snow on christmas is 2002. it's been ten years, they deserve a little. it's going to come up monday into tuesday. this is storm one. i think this is going to affect travel. from new england and as this moves off-shore that would with storm one and problem one. but this is the bigger one, it drops out of the rockies on monday. oklahoma could see see snow on christmas. places like arkansas could have a white christmas. and look at the thunderstorms, much like last week, severe weather is possible. then this thing moves like a check mark, right up to the mid-atlantic, to wednesday and thursday, when a lot of folks are heading home. it looks like we could be seeing some travel troubles. >> ginger zee, the only person i know who gets this excited about storms. ginger, appreciate it. if you weren't traveling

today, odds were you were shopping. today could be the biggest shopping day of the year and abc's john schriffen tells us there are actually some benefits to waiting until the last minute. >> reporter: if you still haven't checked off your holiday shopping list, you're not alone. according to consumer reports two-thirds of americans, 132 million people, still have shopping to do. >> it still seems like it's going to be a pretty strong holiday season. even though consumers have gotten increasingly nervous about the fiscal cliff, but they still have been out there shopping. >> reporter: to entice shoppers to open their wallets some major retailers are offering deep discounts. how about aeropostale, a hit with teens, slashing 60% off everything. for the trendy adult in your life, banana republic, offering 40% off the entire store. as an added convenience some stores are going into shopping marathon mode.

toys r us is opened 43 consecutive hours. macy's staying open 48 straight hours this weekend. >> shopping in the middle of the night sounds crazy, but you're going to get a parking spot, there's likely more stock on the shelves. >> reporter: experts say, like always, it's important to do your homework. many have decided to avoid the lines and shop online. now santa's little helpers. >> santa is here. i know him. >> reporter: not those helpers. these helpers, from delivery companies, are scrambling to get packages out of their trucks and under your tree. >> u.p.s. knows how it is. you want your package. >> reporter: with storms moving through the midwest, the question is -- >> is it going to arrive by christmas? >> if roads are clear, chances are, your package will get there. to give you an idea of just how busy these companies are, fedex expects to set a record this holiday season.

if you want your special gift delivered by tuesday, fedex and u.p.s., dan, said tonight's your last chance to ship it out. >> john schriffen, appreciate it. as john mentioned, the looming fiscal cliff is now just nine days away, is on the minds of many shoppers tonight. and today, as the president and congress began their christmas vacations, we got a rare inside look at the bare knuckle behind the scenes negotiations and abc's david kerley is at the white house tonight. david, good evening to you. >> reporter: good evening to you, dan. it's already vacation mode for everyone in congress and the guy who usually is in the house behind me. the first family arrived in the dark, but woke up to paradise for the holidays. however, the president may not stay because he didn't get his wish -- a deal with congress. members streamed out of the capitol last night with no agreement to avert the fiscal cliff. house speaker john boehner is home in ohio tonight. but he left a video behind. >> washington has a serious problem tonight.

>> reporter: which played in the capitol tonight would echo through the halls. >> reporter: the president's solution of raising taxes -- >> reporter: the republican leader of the senate took a holiday swipe at democrats. >> i'm stuck here at washington. >> reporter: we're learning more tonight about how the negotiations fell apart. the wall street journal quoting unnamed sources said that when the speaker offered $800 billion in revenue by limiting deductions the speaker asked, what do i get? the president reportedly responded, you get nothing, i get that for free. unable to agree on a big deal, on taxes and entitlements, the president is now hoping to get a small deal, extend middle-class tax rates and agree to a framework for a big deal. >> that's an achievable goal, that can get done in ten days. >> reporter: can it? consider the speaker's other

words which are really echoing about making a deal. >> how we get there, god only knows. >> the president wasted no time getting into vacation mode. he went golfing today in hawaii. white house officials told me that staff from both sides are talking through e-mails and phone calls and will through the next couple of days. we expect congress to come back on thursday. no word, dan, on when the president comes back. as the days to the cliff continue to tick off. >> the stake so high for so many people. david kerley, thank you. the other big fight in washington is gun control. with the final three victims from sandy hook elementary school buried today, the national rifle association has said that the real problem isn't guns but instead violent video games, is there really a connection between virtual violence and real-world violence? abc's neal karlinsky got some answers. >> reporter: thomas pantig and stephan lloyd are typical of many in their generation. good jobs by day, obsessed with a violent, so-called first

person shooter called call of duty when they get home. but is this just good fun, or is an entire generation being trained and desensitized to the act of shooting people? >> some people just go crazy. >> reporter: dr. chris ferguson has conducted a series of multiyear studies of 11-year-old to 18-year-olds to find out what violent games do to them. >> there is no evidence that exposure to violent behavior is associated with behavior. >> reporter: but dr. victor strasburger says today's video games are more real, more intense than anything that's come before. >> kids spend an incredible amount of time with the media, they see increasingly violent media, why would we in this nation spend $250 billion on advertising if we didn't have an effect on people. >> reporter: so whose research to believe, who to judge? the u.s. supreme court already has. in striking down california's attempt at a violent video game

law, the court had this to say, these studies have been rejected by every court to consider them, and with good reason, they do not prove that violent video games cause minors to act aggressively. a mother of two young children with her own concerns also happens to run one of the most successful first person shooter games around, halo 4. what do you say to parents who worry that it's too violent, not good for the kids? >> what i recommend, your kids are going to play games. play with them so that you can really be there to answer questions and help them through that. >> reporter: advice from an insider, kids are playing these games, and it's up to the parents to understand them. neal karlinsky, abc news, seattle. and now to an extraordinary medical story, tonight one family is celebrating the holidays with a baby they thought would not be here. this is a medical miracle.

involving an operation months before the child was even born. here's dr. richard besser. >> reporter: what you're seeing is a miracle in motion. just a few minutes old. you would never guessed that this baby had been through an operation on its heart months before, while still in his mother's womb. 20 weeks pregnant, she received devastating news. >> she was carrying a fetus that had absence of development of left side of the heart. >> reporter: the doctors at children's hospital in philadelphia, wanted to perform an operation of his unborn heart, just the size of a grape. >> we held on to that little glimmer of hope maybe, there's an expermital procedure that would give him hope. >> we just thought that there has to be a first.

there's a first for everything. >> and maybe he'll be it. >> reporter: on this ultrasound you're seeing the actual needle pass through mom's belly into his heart where doctors inserted a tiny stent. doctors won't know how successful they were until three months later when he was born. every cry, a welcome sound. and remember how we told you that no child undergoing this surgery had lived to 1, take a look at this. ♪ happy birthday >> reporter: what are your dreams for him? >> grow up and hopefully have a family of his own. yeah, just grow old like the rest of us. >> reporter: a little fighter looki ing forward to many more birthdays. dr. richard besser, abc news, east greenville, pennsylvania. >> extraordinary. we wish them a merry christmas. coming up here -- the new hit film being criticized by the head of the cia. why "zero dark thirty" is ruffling feathers at langley. ♪

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been a tumultuous day in egypt, there was a second round of voting on the new constitution, hours before the polls closed, the vice president himself resigned and that was followed by the head of the central bank, there are growing concerns that if this constitution passes the country's political crisis will only get worse. back here at home, violence on the big screen is a source of a big controversy. "zero dark thirty," about the hunt of osama bin laden, is now being criticized by the head of the cia itself. abc's muhammad lila is on that story. >> when was the last time you saw bin laden? >> reporter: an edge-of-the-seat thriller that's now an edge-of-the-seat controversy. "zero dark thirty" re-creates the manhunt for osama bin laden. >> we'll never find him. >> reporter: cramming a ten-year search into a 2 1/2-hour thriller. while fans are calling it a hit. what did you think of the film?

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finally, tonight, the "wheel of fortune" winner who watched it all slip away in a second. she guessed the right letters, figured out the right word. but there was something about the way she spoke that just did not fit right with the host. here's abc's nick watt. >> reporter: renee durette was on a roll. >> i would like to solve. seven swans a swimmin'. >> yeah, that's -- i can't accept that. >> reporter: renee denied. because in those "12 days of christmas," the swans ain't swimmin' they're swimming -- with the "g." that one lost letter cost durette nearly $4,000. cue online outrage, was the brave-faced durette robbed? it has happened before. this couple on fox's "million

dollar money drop" guessed post-it notes came before the walkman. wrong. they lost $800,000. "right," screamed the internet hordes. and fox admitted a research error and offered them another shot. season one of abc's "who wants to be a millionaire," this guy guessed huron is the second biggest great lake. computer said he was wrong. >> david, i'm sorry. it was lake michigan. >> reporter: it turned out, he was right. he came back for a do-over and went home with $125,000. game show gaffes are very, very rare. after the scandals of the 1950s when shows like "twenty one" were fixed to keep telegenic contestants in the mix, congress made it illegal to rig a game show. behind the bonhomie, it's a tightly controlled medium. pat sajak chief of the persnickety pronunciation police just confirmed.

>> renee knew it would happen. and it was kind of easy to do because you did it in the vernacular and said, "seven swans a swimmin.'" >> reporter: you're harsh, pat, you're harsh but fair. nick watt, abc news, los angeles. >> we'll hear what renee has to say about this tomorrow morning on "good morning america." we're always online at abcnews.com. be sure to watch "good morning america" first thing in the morning. bianna, ron ginger and i will be here with your news and weather. i'll see you right back here tomorrow night. for david muir and everyone here at abc news, thank you for watching. good night.